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Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust

The health trust aims to improve health and quality of life for residents of the greater pajaro valley by providing health promotion services and diabetes self-management education.

$369k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$6.7MEducation$732kFood & Nutrition$432kHuman Services$319kYouth Development$192kEmployment$143kCommunity Improvement$115kPhilanthropy$113kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $272k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$92,400
PAJARO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL$29,000
MONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP$20,000
COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD$18,000
FOODWHAT INCORPORATED$15,000
FAMILY SVCS AGENCY$15,000
NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$15,000
DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE$15,000
TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT$15,000
THE DIVERSITY CENTER$15,000
ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
FARM DISCOVERY AT LIVE EARTH$15,000
KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER INTERNATIONAL$15,000
SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY VENTURES$15,000
WATSONVILLE FAMILY YMCA$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION: $40k → 13%WATSONVILLE FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 13%FAMILY SVCS AGENCY: $20k → 13%FAMILY SVCS AGENCY: $15k → 13%FAMILY SVCS AGENCY: $15k → 13%FAMILY SVCS AGENCY: $15k → 13%FAMILY SVCS AGENCY: $15k → 13%FAMILY SVCS AGENCY: $12k → 13%FAMILY SVCS AGENCY: $12k → 13%FAMILY SVCS AGENCY: $10k → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SVCS: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 33 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
18

Total granted

$2.6M
$6.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+4%

Still filing today

88%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    Cabrillo College Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $189k · revenue +44%
  • CA
    Community Action Board
    3× · 2019–2025 · $143k · revenue +152%
  • FI
    FoodWhat Incorporated
    6× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • PV
    Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project
    one grant, 2022 · $6.0M · revenue -96%
  • V
    VARIOUS
    one grant, 2024 · $210k
  • PV
    PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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2
Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.

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3
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy

CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.

Community Improvement
4
Just Communities Central Coast

At Just Communities we work to ensure that Central Coast schools, organizations, and communities are places of opportunity, not places of limitation. We advance justice by engaging our community in leadership development, dialogue, action…

Civil Rights
5
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
Clinica De Salud Del Valle De Salinas

Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (CSVS) is dedicated to providing access to quality comprehensive health care to men, women and children with an emphasis on farm worker families and the agricultural community.

Health
8
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
9
Mendocino Coast Clinics Inc

Mendocino Coast Clinics

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10
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
11
Cultiva La Salud

Cultiva La Salud is dedicated to creating health equity in the San Joaquin Valley by fostering changes in communities that support healthy eating and active living. Cultiva La Salud is among a growing number of programs in the nation who…

Health
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County

CASA of Santa Cruz advocates for children and youth, providing court appointed volunteers so each child in the dependency and juvenile court system feels cared for and connected with the people, families and resources they need to heal and…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Encompass Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Watsonville Rotary Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood, Shelter & Basic Assis…Higher Education & Communit…Sports & Recreation ClubsRegional Arts & Culture Org…Community Economic & Social…Coastal & Marine Conservati…Community Safety & Housing
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%75%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr16%7%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 75% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
11%
357/3,158

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project — $6,000,000 · HealthPajaro Valley Healthcare District Project+7 more — $371,000 · Health+7 morePAJARO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL — $260,000 · OtherPAJARO VALLEY UNIF…VARIOUS — $210,000 · OtherVARIOUSCabrillo Community College — $100,400 · OtherCabrillo Community…PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC — $100,000 · OtherPAJARO VALLEY PREV…STARLIGHT ELEMENTARY — $93,900 · OtherSTARLIGHT ELEMENTA…SALUD PARA LA GENTE — $73,000 · OtherThe Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center — $70,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $53,756 · OtherUnited Way of Santa Cruz County — $113,000 · OtherUnited Way of Sant…+20 more — $436,000 · Other+20 moreFoodWhat Incorporated — $127,500 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT — $87,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIGITAL NEST INC — $55,244 · Youth DevelopmentCabrillo College Foundation — $188,600 · EducationLIVE EARTH FARM DISCOVERY PROGRAM — $90,000 · EducationLife Lab Science Program — $55,000 · EducationFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST — $114,000 · Human ServicesVENTURES — $85,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSES — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Bridges — $95,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $87,000 · Food & NutritionESPERANZA COMMUNITY FARMS INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Action Board — $143,000 · Employment
Health$6,371,000Other$1,510,056Youth Development$349,744Education$333,600Human Services$261,500Food & Nutrition$197,000Employment$143,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPajaro Valley Healthcare District Project — $6,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation — $188,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Action Board — $143,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated — $127,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST — $114,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Santa Cruz County — $113,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $112,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Bridges — $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $90,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLIVE EARTH FARM DISCOVERY PROGRAM — $90,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $87,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT — $87,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetVENTURES — $85,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast — $80,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSALUD PARA LA GENTE — $73,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center — $70,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetNAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $60,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC — $55,244 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLife Lab Science Program — $55,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $53,756 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $41,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PARKS — $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS — $30,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCommunity Agroecology Network — $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER INTERNATIONAL — $30,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $27,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEL PAJARO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY FARMS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWATSONVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEcology Action of Santa Cruz — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTERS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA CRUZ BARRIOS UNIDOS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Monterey Peninsula Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Dignity HealthVolunteer Centers of …East Bay Community Fo…Sunlight GivingThe David and Lucile …Caroline's Nonprofit …Sutter Bay HospitalsSutter Bay Medical Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…
Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA81.8× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · East Bay Community Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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